Questions for today:
Our goal is to reconnect to the Creator. If we analyze the “re” in the ‘reconnect’, how close were we? And how do we get back there?
In our understanding of the return to the Creator, today is a very powerful lesson.
We spoke about committing to the relationship in the future, we spoke about how realizing our soul is not 'spoken' from the Creator, but breathed from the Creator’s ‘inside’.
We then discussed how having mercy for taking that high level of G-dliness, and dragging it down through our thoughts and actions, we can bring it back the way it was before.
Today we go to the next level.
Where is our breath ‘before we breathe it’?
When we - specifically from the pain and urgency of having been distant - decide to commit to the Creator, we could go back to the way we were before, not just ‘as breathed’, but ‘before we were ever breathed’ - truly one with the Creator.
This is not just something we can do conceptually, we can do this with our actions.
If somebody wants to do something wrong and they avoid it, they're a 'separate' person albeit humble to the Creator. When they go past that and do a mitzvah that the Creator wants, they're thinking of the Creator, not themselves.
Even higher, when we study Torah, our mind, our perspective, is one with the Creator.
And if we do it with love and passion, there's nothing else.
213 18 Tanya Tammuz 24 ~ m241b 18b Tammuz 28b
Tanya book 3, Ch 8, pt2
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